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Trip Diary: Bhopal - Cover Image
Culture
Trip Diary: Bhopal

Every Frappe offsite is special - fun, dramatic and usually wholesome. Notes from our trip to Bhopal in Feb '23.

Learning to lead - Cover Image
Culture
Learning to lead

Going down the rabbit hole to find what makes great leaders

How people fail in jobs (and how to fix it) - Cover Image
Culture
How people fail in jobs (and how to fix it)

Being successful in a company is a two way street, both the person and the company must learn to tango if they have to get it right.

Finding your mission - Cover Image
Culture
Finding your mission

Can work become your mission? Is it worthy of your full engagement? Some thoughts and explorations...

Make - Cover Image
Engineering
Make

With so many software applications, tools and components available for free, why bother making new ones?

You can't motivate anyone - Cover Image
Culture
You can't motivate anyone

Motivation as a leadership problem is overrated. You can't just "fire up" people. If people are not motivated, the problem lies elsewhere.

A journey to the heart of Digital India - Cover Image
Open Source
A journey to the heart of Digital India

The government of India is working hard to digitise all services. My experiences from the 25th National E-Governance Conference.

This changes everything - Cover Image
Community
This changes everything

The ERPNext Conference 2022 was a totally unexpected success

Re introducing ERPNext Hosting + Support - Cover Image
Announcements
Re introducing ERPNext Hosting + Support

A look at the new ERPNext Hosting + Support plans and our pricing experiments through the years 2010-2022

Why you should NOT work at Frappe - Cover Image
Culture
Why you should NOT work at Frappe

Frappe is an awesome place to work, but not for everyone. Here is an honest attempt to talk about our shortcomings.

Choosing your own pay, how does this work? - Cover Image
Culture
Choosing your own pay, how does this work?

A step-by-step guide on how to implement pick your own pay in your company.

How to start a movement - Cover Image
Culture
How to start a movement

Notes from Offsite #6, where from a company, we became a movement.

Frappe Anti-Values - Cover Image
Culture
Frappe Anti-Values

If values have to matter, they must represent a trade-off. For each value to be impactful, there must be an anti-value (things that bring us down). What are the anti-values of Frappe?

Using group intelligence to measure excellence - Cover Image
Culture
Using group intelligence to measure excellence

Can group intelligence be used to run an organization? Here are some notes from our latest experiment

Don't Be Evil - Cover Image
Culture
Don't Be Evil

While Google quietly dropped "Don't be Evil" from their Code of Conduct, here at Frappe we just formed our own version of it.

Notes from Malshej, Frappe Trip #5 - Cover Image
Culture
Notes from Malshej, Frappe Trip #5

Notes from yet another epic trip with the Frappe Team.

Rights and Responsibilities of a Frappe Team Member - Cover Image
Culture
Rights and Responsibilities of a Frappe Team Member

On 6th of August, the Frappe Team voted and adopted a general bill of rights and responsibilities of each team member

Be an Artist - Cover Image
Culture
Be an Artist

Why everyone should aspire to become an artist.

Democracy at Frappe - Electing the Leadership Council - Cover Image
Culture
Democracy at Frappe - Electing the Leadership Council

Over the past year, Frappe has become a more democratically run company. In June 2021, we elected the first Leadership Council. Here is the story.

The Sandwich Organization - Cover Image
Culture
The Sandwich Organization

Both flat organizations and hierarchical ones fail, time to try something new?